One must always do what one really cannot.
NIELS BOHREvery sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.
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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
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It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.
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We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
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The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.
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